Example sentences of "[pers pn] say they [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing dogs for the deaf have become increasingly popular over the past ten years — now the staff who train them say they ca n't cope with the demand . |
| 2 | I do n't know , people l I 'm of them say they ca n't afford to pay the kids , and get the food for the kids , and they 'll have to give them chips a couple of , every day of the week or whatever , but th there 's no need for that . |
| 3 | whatever I say they ca n't hear me . |
| 4 | I say they should n't get away with that . |
| 5 | She says they ca n't take legal action . |
| 6 | she said they 'll not know you 're doing it , I swear |
| 7 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 8 | She would n't he had some lovely irises but she would n't buy them cos she said they would n't last . |
| 9 | so they just call it E T , she said they can actually send you to a place where you can get you , your experience and er because they 've sent you , you get an extra certain amount , ten pound a week , cos you 're going through the job centre |
| 10 | We said they could n't have the corpse if we did n't get it — that 's by the by — but it 's understood by both sides that this is the last of such meetings . |
| 11 | I 'd like businesses , rather than coming to me saying they ca n't get what they want from schools , to be like Unipart and go out an find what they want . |
| 12 | They say they wo n't leave without a fight . |
| 13 | And although the police stress they want to educate bad drivers as much as land them in court , they say they wo n't hesitate to prosecute those who deserve it . |
| 14 | They say they wo n't buy mahogany from loggers convicted of malpractice , but insisted an immediate stop on the trade would cost jobs . |
| 15 | They say they wo n't believe that . |
| 16 | Like , say they 've been out on a run and there 's a call , they say they ca n't go out because they 're not in uniform and are all sweaty ’ ( FN 26/5/87 , p. 27 ) . |
| 17 | I 'm saying this because GCSE includes a section on improvisation , and a lot of teachers ca n't do it ; they say they ca n't do it … |
| 18 | because , you know , erm , most kids these days , especially by the time they 're nine or ten , they 're used to having their own pocket money , and then you , and they say they ca n't do any maths at all , and you say well , if you had a fifty pence and you bought something for twenty four , how much change ? |
| 19 | And they can do maths , they just , it 's just that when you call it maths they say they ca n't do it . |
| 20 | I 've got official forms here from the tax office , I mean , they say they ca n't accept it ! |
| 21 | They say they ca n't discuss the case until the inquest is over . |
| 22 | They say they ca n't afford it , we say that we must afford it . |
| 23 | They say they ca n't afford to treat them on the National Health . |
| 24 | The US Baby Bells are telling the US powers that be that they will invest $100,000m upgrading their networks if they are permitted to carry any services they choose on them — if not , they will simply allow their networks to deteriorate and decay : no , they do n't actually go that far , but they say they will collectively invest only $25,000m . |
| 25 | Regarding the diabetic specialist nurse , yes , of course we would welcome a special unit , but that does seem a bit extravagant when they say they can not find enough money for one nurse . |
| 26 | They say they could now lose thousands of pounds without expert advice on their crops . |
| 27 | yeah we put it in the Leeds for , well they said they wo n't give you any money because Leeds have n't sent the cheque back . |
| 28 | They said they would rather have the cash . |
| 29 | They said they would not let my back into the village until I got them a ration card and some wheat . |
| 30 | ‘ They said they would not allow him to come otherwise so here I am , ’ says Marci . |